Community Ventures Corp. will receive help through a $90,500 grant from NeighborWorks America. This flexible funding source will help CVC provide access to fund foreclosure counseling and homebuyer counseling and education for first-time homeowners.

"The need for nonprofit community development organizations and the work they do to stabilize communities, further economic development and create and sustain jobs has never been greater," stated Eileen Fitzgerald, acting CEO of NeighborWorks America.

General signup for the Farm Service Agency's Conservation Reserve Program begins today. Signups will continue through April 15.

The Conservation Reserve Program is the largest voluntary private-land conservation program. It helps farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers use their environmentally sensitive land for conservation purposes. CRP assists in creating new wildlife habitat, enhancing water, soil, and air quality through a variety of covers that can be established on the offered land.

Bluegrass Way Assisted Living, located at 100 Garden Way in Campbellsville, recently broke ground for a $1 million expansion project to build 11 additional residential apartments. Once completed this fall, Bluegrass Way will have a total of 43 residential apartments.

Devona Wright of Cumberland County has been selected as the new regional director of membership sales for Air Evac Lifeteam, an air ambulance service that provides emergency health care and rapid medical transport to rural communities throughout the central United States. Air Evac Lifeteam has a facility in Campbellsville.

Wright is in charge of coordinating Air Evac Lifeteam membership sales and services at the company’s 19 bases in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia.

The March 2011 edition of Site Selection magazine has ranked Campbellsville among the 2010 Top Micropolitan areas with three qualifying existing business projects. Out of 576 micropolitan communities in the United States, Campbellsville tied for 41st place. The U.S. Census Bureau defines a micropolitan statistical area as an urban core of at least 10,000 but less than 50,000 population.